An Essay on the Life of George Washington: Commander in Chief of the American Army, Through the Revolutionary War; and the First President of the United StatesThomas & Sturtevant, Sold by Thomas and Andrews, 1807 - 552 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 156
... fort to prevent the execution of the enemy's design , in the hope of forcing General Howe out of Phila- delphia , by ... Mifflin . On a neck of land on the opposite shore of New Jersey , called Red Bank , a fort was constructed and ...
... fort to prevent the execution of the enemy's design , in the hope of forcing General Howe out of Phila- delphia , by ... Mifflin . On a neck of land on the opposite shore of New Jersey , called Red Bank , a fort was constructed and ...
الصفحة 159
... Fort Mercer at Red Bank , and in Fort Mifflin on Mud Island , but he had not a force equal to their complete defence . He appointed detach . ments to intercept the transportation of provisions from the British ships below the American ...
... Fort Mercer at Red Bank , and in Fort Mifflin on Mud Island , but he had not a force equal to their complete defence . He appointed detach . ments to intercept the transportation of provisions from the British ships below the American ...
الصفحة 160
... Fort or Mud Island . Count Donop crossed into New Jer- sey with twelve hundred Germans , and in the even- ing of the 22d appeared before Fort ... Mifflin was attacked by the shipping , and by batteries erected on the Penn- sylvania shore ...
... Fort or Mud Island . Count Donop crossed into New Jer- sey with twelve hundred Germans , and in the even- ing of the 22d appeared before Fort ... Mifflin was attacked by the shipping , and by batteries erected on the Penn- sylvania shore ...
الصفحة 161
... forts on the Delaware far exceeding the expectations of the British ... fort . They also brought up their shipping , gun boats & c . and from the ... Mifflin as to throw hand grenades from her tops into it , which killed men ...
... forts on the Delaware far exceeding the expectations of the British ... fort . They also brought up their shipping , gun boats & c . and from the ... Mifflin as to throw hand grenades from her tops into it , which killed men ...
الصفحة 173
... Fort Mifflin and Red Bank . The different termination of the campaigns of 1777 at the North , and in the Middle states , furnish- ed the ignorant and factious part of the community with an opportunity to clamour against the Com- mander ...
... Fort Mifflin and Red Bank . The different termination of the campaigns of 1777 at the North , and in the Middle states , furnish- ed the ignorant and factious part of the community with an opportunity to clamour against the Com- mander ...
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الصفحة 489 - In the execution of such a plan, nothing is more essential, than that permanent, inveterate antipathies against particular nations, and passionate attachments for others, should be excluded; and that, in place of them, just and amicable feelings towards all should be cultivated. The Nation, which indulges towards another an habitual hatred, or an habitual fondness, is in some degree a slave.
الصفحة 489 - ... can it be that good policy does not equally enjoin it ? It will be worthy of a free, enlightened, and at no distant period, a great nation, to give to mankind the magnanimous and too novel example of a people always guided by an exalted justice and benevolence. Who can doubt that, in the course of time and things, the fruits of such a plan would richly repay any temporary advantages which might be lost by a steady adherence to it ? Can it be that Providence has not connected the permanent felicity...
الصفحة 485 - Without looking forward to an extremity of this kind, (which nevertheless ought not to be entirely out of sight,) the common and continual mischiefs of the spirit of party are sufficient to make it the interest and duty of a wise people to discourage and restrain it It serves always to distract the Public Councils, and enfeeble the Public Administration.
الصفحة 486 - If in the opinion of the people the distribution or modification of the constitutional powers be in any particular wrong, let it be corrected by an amendment in the way which the Constitution designates. But let there be no change by usurpation; for though this in one instance may be the instrument of good, it is the customary weapon by which free governments are destroyed.
الصفحة 490 - Hence frequent collisions, obstinate, envenomed, and bloody contests. The Nation, prompted by ill-will and resentment, sometimes impels to war the Government, contrary to the best calculations of policy. The Government sometimes participates in the national propensity, and adopts through passion what reason would reject...
الصفحة 478 - The east. in a like intercourse with the west, already finds, and in the progressive improvement of interior communications by land and water will more and more find a valuable vent for the commodities which it brings from abroad, or manufactures at home. The west derives from the east supplies requisite to its growth and comfort — and what is perhaps of still greater consequence, it must of necessity owe the secure enjoyment of indispensable outlets for its own productions, to the weight, influence,...
الصفحة 479 - Hence likewise they will avoid the necessity of those overgrown military establishments, which, under any form of government, are inauspicious to liberty, and which are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty. In this sense it is that your union ought to be considered as a main prop of your liberty and that the love of the one ought to endear to you the preservation of the other.
الصفحة 476 - ... the happiness of the people of these States, under the auspices of liberty, may be made complete by so careful a preservation and so prudent a use of this blessing as will acquire to them the glory of recommending it to the applause, the affection and adoption of every nation which is yet a stranger to it.
الصفحة 487 - Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, Religion and morality are indispensable supports. In vain would that man claim the tribute of Patriotism, who should labor to subvert these great Pillars of human happiness, these firmest props of the duties of Men and citizens.
الصفحة 370 - No people can be bound to acknowledge and adore the invisible hand which conducts the affairs of men more than the people of the United States. Every step by which they have advanced to the character of an independent nation seems to have been distinguished by some token of providential agency...